Memory Summary: Shu is a soundproof practice room with a doll sitting against the mirrored back wall, attempting to work through an idol's routine but he quickly becomes frustrated. And starts shouting about his own inadequacies— being 0.3 seconds off in his movements— and then starts pleading with the doll and rambling about regaining his throne to Mademoiselle. Who scolds him. He begins animatedly arguing with himself as he accuses her of being a backstabber.
He suddenly goes quiet as the door creaks open. The doll is confused, asks if he died and then notices the girl creaking open the door. The doll introduces the both of them to Anzu, and asks her to leave Shu alone because he's shy. The doll is mostly interested in getting her and Shu out of the room so Anzu can clean, Shu is interested in yelling at Anzu for taking his prey— Tenshouin Eichi— from him.
Then Mademoiselle scolds him, again, he starts arguing with her. Mademoiselle asks for a little more time to let Shu calm down; he gets more worked up though when Anzu reaches for her. They end up explaining she's old and fragile, then bragging about her, his handiwork, his old unit— which irritates Shu again, and fires him up to get back to more practice.
Mademoiselle tries to tell him, no, they need to leave, Anzu needs to clean and can't do it while they're there— and ends up apologizing to Anzu for Shu being selfish.
Memory Script: - Mention of this memory is in Human Comedy - Epilogue 1 but the event is off-screen.
Details of his sister and brother as well as the conversation between Kiryuu, Shu, and his grandfather are head-canon, his grand-father's dialogue demanding Shu go back to school and perform or he'll jump out the window is not.
Memory Summary: Shu and his deliquent looking friend are walking down a hospital hallway. Outside the door are a man and a woman who look like they are probably his older siblings— the man tells Shu and his friend to not agitate their grandfather too much, his sister adding in that with as old as he is being hospitalized is fairly serious. Shu informs them that he is already aware, but he will keep conversation to light topics so as not to disturb their grandfather. His brother looks at Shu's face scrutinizing, before sighing and letting him in.
Shu and his friend enter the room, to the old man's hospital bed. It's a fairly large room, with no roommates— his family is paying for him to get a place to himself. They leave flowers, ask how he's doing, Kiryuu tells him about how things are going with Karate club and tells him how he's still taking care of his delicate cry-baby grandson. Shu protests and tries to slap a hand over his mouth, objecting, and Kiryuu grabs his wrists and tells him not to make a ruckus in the hospital. Shu pulls back and crosses his arms, with a small hmph while his grandfather laughs.
Kiryuu shakes his head and shrugs, and finishes talking about school and says sorry, but that's it from him, he can't stay much longer.
Shu waves opens the door to let him out, and then sits down at his grandfather's bedside. His grandfather asks after what he's been up to, and Shu begins talking about the repayment festival— the thing Kiryuu just had to leave for. His grandfather holds out a hand for Shu to stop talking. Why is it that only Kiryuu had to leave for it? Well, Shu was going to spend more time with him— he is hospitalized, afterall, and he can always perf—
And his grandfather is having none of it, immediately getting worked up despite his fragile state. Roaring, he tells Shu, "There are people out there looking forward to your performance! You should be thankful to them! Stop wasting your time here!”
“If you’re so worried about this worthless old bag of bones, I swear I’ll jump out the window right now to sever your attachment to me!”
The noise attracts the attention of his brother and sister, his sister who gives him a dirty look and his brother says he'll also get their mother and father— Shu, put that ridiculous strength of yours to good work and hold him down! Because yes, his grandfather is trying to get out of the bed. His parents burst in and as a group effort the entire five person family is able to get him to calm down, as Shu agrees to go back to school and perform.
Once he leaves the hospital room, he sags against the hall, laughing a little to himself— he was a fool to have worried. That old man is going to live to see 300, that is for certain.
Memory Summary: It's snowing, and the ground is already laden with snow. That loud obnoxious new avante has Shu on his back, and another guy with gray hair is keeping pace with them, scolding them while they bicker. In short, there's a performance happening, and Shu wassss going to freeze to death outside because he hates cellphones and got lost, so they came to find him. Looks like... he might be sort of friends with the new noisy guy on avante?
Memory Script: Shu and a friend with extremely bad fashion are out in the shopping district in the dead of winter with snow on the ground: Shu scolding his friend, until they get distracted arguing about love before a third person calls out to them. AlcheME!'s N is on the ground near a vending machine, next to a bunch of fish tanks. Shu offers to call an ambulance, N says he is fine and both his friends agree that Shu is kind while Shu refutes that he is any such thing. Apparently N needs a drink but spent all his money at the fish store, which is why he's carrying all these tanks. Shu tells him to think about consequences before he does things but Wataru agrees that he should just act on impulse. Shu argues with them more before changing the topic— at any rate, they should get N a drink.
Wataru buys him mineral water and N asks for him to splash it on him. Shu points out that it is literally freezing outside, just drink it like a normal person.
Memory Summary: It's an actual idol performance. Shu, Kagehira, and a blond that looks like a former member of TRR, Ken are performing on an extremely elaborate stage to Holy Boy's Game. There are film crews recording the three of them, as they perform. They are very, very good. But, if you are very observant you'll notice they are lip-syncing, though to a recording of their own voices. Shu's voice and (if you've met him) Ken's voices are distinctly their own. The audience that watches is completely silent, enraptured, and the arena is a sea of Valkyrie red penlights.
Memory Summary: Shu is in a sewing room, dressed in his school uniform, and leaning out the window listening to— a string cup. Behind him, Kagehira is sewing something, the both of them quiet when Ken comes in. Mika is happy to see him, though he's late— and Mika has to deal with the brunt of Shu's bad moods when that happens. Anyway, he's making a costume as a belated birthday present, and it's not as good as anything their mentor makes, but, well... Ken is overjoyed though, and tries three times to make words come out but instead just stammers, unable.
Shu interrupts them and tells them to be quiet, he's on the phone. The string phone, because Rei doesn't know how to use a smartphone. Anyway, back to his conversation with Rei.
The memory, viewed from the outside, only one-sidedly reveals what Shu said, but it sounds like Shu tells Rei not to cross him. Rei probably(?) corrects him, and it sounds like Shu is being warned against Tenshouin. Shu expresses that Tenshouin has only money, not talent, and surely even the vulgar people of the audience will be able to see Valkyrie is of much greater quality than anything that rich boy could put together. That said, he would never be so foolish as to ignore the words of a friend— he thanks Rei for the warning.
Memory Summary: It's Shu taking out Ken to a parfait parlor after a long day of shooting a performance! Shu is extremely obnoxiously complimentary, and when Ken is embarrassed that they're attracting attention, Shu yells at the passerby to feel blessed to get to see his cute Nito. Which Ken hits him for, not that it deters Shu in the least.
He also tries to get Ken to not talk nearly so extremely masculinely, but no dice. Ah well, it is better that Nito speak masculinely than not at all! Even if what he has to say isn't what Shu wants to hear, he'll be happy to hear it from him!
He also wigs out because dragonfruit are ugly, Nito don't put something so grotesque in your mouth!!! Which Ken ignores, and then feeds Shu a dragonfruit while he despairs of the world.
Memory summary: In the handicrafts clubroom, Shu and Kagehira are working on their respective sewing projects. Shu notices Kagehira is depressed while Kagehira doesn't respond, annoying Shu. Shu tries to figure out if it's because Kagehira hasn't accepted that he's going abroad, out of the boundaries from where Tenshouin can reach him— he is done being tied down by his past and nightmares. He thanks Kagehira for staying by his side and getting him back on his feet, and gives him permission to live his own life now.
Kagehira insists he's Shu's doll. He gets angrier as he speaks, full of vitriol for humanity, "In fiction, humans’re usually the most amazin’, the most precious things.
So it feels weird t’see humans die as the worthless trash they are, like in a horror movie, right?
But that’s how it is in reality. I don’t think of humans as some magnificent thing I should be aimin’ t’become.
There're parents out there who beat their children an' throw 'em away, an' on the contrary, children who kill their parents for trivial reasons. Stuff like that's all we do; there ain't a single completely pure human out there. "
But dolls are always good. He accuses Shu of wanting him to be a human tantamount to throwing him away. Shu rebukes this, saying he's been taking advantage of Kagehira, but now he wants him to be happy even if he's off-base right now. He wants to understand Kagehira.
Memory Summmary: Shu is in his summer uniform, in the handicrafts clubroom which looks wrecked. He's been throwing things, breathing hard from the exertion and the heat. A boy a little younger than him comes in, while Shu doesn't notice, still wrecking his club room, shouting about how his hands have become rusty.
Natsume tells him off, and Shu startles, telling him to knock— which he did, Shu just didn't hear. Natsume tells him being so high strung will shorten his lifespan, which Shu says is fine. He then talks about his ideal suicide, and gets told off again before finally calming down and asking what Natsume is here for, which turns out he needs Shu's help getting some costumes made.
A phone call interrupts their conversation— a young lady called and hung up immediately afterwards, but Kagehira's been kidnapped, bye.
Memory Summary: Mika gives Mademoiselle a hair ornament. She loves it, while Shu disapproves— though he relents and agrees to make an outfit to match, at the end.
Memory Summary: Shu is completely unresponsive on a park bench at night, holding Mademoiselle in one arm and failing to respond as Kagehira tries to get him to come home, get him to eat, get him to say something.
Eventually, Mademoiselle responds and tells Mika to go home without them. Mika refuses and starts chatting pleasantly with Mademoiselle, until she stops responding and Shu with a jolt stands up and shouts, "Nito!" Kagehira invites him over, and Shu tells Kagehira to remain silent.
For his part, Nito does not seem friendly. He addresses Shu like a stranger, and tells him he's withdrawn from valkyrie— which Shu hasn't approved of, but circumstances being what they are, the student council is allowing it. Nito is going to join another unit he's been acting with.
Kagehira protests and asks if that's really true-- they always got along so well! Shu will get better, they can make a comeback!
Nito bluntly says Valkyrie is finished, and tries to get Mika to be a real boy, rather than a puppet. He'll help him out, since he thinks of him as a little brother— but Shu is useless now.
Kagehira insists Shu is still the strongest even if he needs to rest for now, so they have to support him. Nito is silent, and Kagehira gets angrier. Oh, so Nazuna-nii can talk now, just to be spiteful and then clam up! You traitor!
Shu finally steps into the conversation, telling Kagehira again to be quiet. He then turns to Nito, and tells him to return to his side. He's misunderstood, and begun to think of himself as a person, but he'll only break. If he wishes to return before that happens, Shu will splendidly remake him.
Nito refuses, and tells them their live today was terrible.
Shu tells him he should leave, and never show his face to them again. It's a shame, when Nito was his masterpiece.
Nito agrees, and says he was too well-made— he ended up having a human heart. Farewell, Mika-chin, Mentor.
Memory Summary: Shu explains his brilliant nefarious plot to trick a first year into thinking it's the wrong day of week so he can steal a croissant. Mika is incredulous that Shu is this invested in something this dumb, but agrees to help.
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Memory 1/12
Memory Summary: Shu is a soundproof practice room with a doll sitting against the mirrored back wall, attempting to work through an idol's routine but he quickly becomes frustrated. And starts shouting about his own inadequacies— being 0.3 seconds off in his movements— and then starts pleading with the doll and rambling about regaining his throne to Mademoiselle. Who scolds him. He begins animatedly arguing with himself as he accuses her of being a backstabber.
He suddenly goes quiet as the door creaks open. The doll is confused, asks if he died and then notices the girl creaking open the door. The doll introduces the both of them to Anzu, and asks her to leave Shu alone because he's shy. The doll is mostly interested in getting her and Shu out of the room so Anzu can clean, Shu is interested in yelling at Anzu for taking his prey— Tenshouin Eichi— from him.
Then Mademoiselle scolds him, again, he starts arguing with her. Mademoiselle asks for a little more time to let Shu calm down; he gets more worked up though when Anzu reaches for her. They end up explaining she's old and fragile, then bragging about her, his handiwork, his old unit— which irritates Shu again, and fires him up to get back to more practice.
Mademoiselle tries to tell him, no, they need to leave, Anzu needs to clean and can't do it while they're there— and ends up apologizing to Anzu for Shu being selfish.
Memory 2/12
Details of his sister and brother as well as the conversation between Kiryuu, Shu, and his grandfather are head-canon, his grand-father's dialogue demanding Shu go back to school and perform or he'll jump out the window is not.
Memory Summary: Shu and his deliquent looking friend are walking down a hospital hallway. Outside the door are a man and a woman who look like they are probably his older siblings— the man tells Shu and his friend to not agitate their grandfather too much, his sister adding in that with as old as he is being hospitalized is fairly serious. Shu informs them that he is already aware, but he will keep conversation to light topics so as not to disturb their grandfather. His brother looks at Shu's face scrutinizing, before sighing and letting him in.
Shu and his friend enter the room, to the old man's hospital bed. It's a fairly large room, with no roommates— his family is paying for him to get a place to himself. They leave flowers, ask how he's doing, Kiryuu tells him about how things are going with Karate club and tells him how he's still taking care of his delicate cry-baby grandson. Shu protests and tries to slap a hand over his mouth, objecting, and Kiryuu grabs his wrists and tells him not to make a ruckus in the hospital. Shu pulls back and crosses his arms, with a small hmph while his grandfather laughs.
Kiryuu shakes his head and shrugs, and finishes talking about school and says sorry, but that's it from him, he can't stay much longer.
Shu waves opens the door to let him out, and then sits down at his grandfather's bedside. His grandfather asks after what he's been up to, and Shu begins talking about the repayment festival— the thing Kiryuu just had to leave for. His grandfather holds out a hand for Shu to stop talking. Why is it that only Kiryuu had to leave for it? Well, Shu was going to spend more time with him— he is hospitalized, afterall, and he can always perf—
And his grandfather is having none of it, immediately getting worked up despite his fragile state. Roaring, he tells Shu, "There are people out there looking forward to your performance! You should be thankful to them! Stop wasting your time here!”
“If you’re so worried about this worthless old bag of bones, I swear I’ll jump out the window right now to sever your attachment to me!”
The noise attracts the attention of his brother and sister, his sister who gives him a dirty look and his brother says he'll also get their mother and father— Shu, put that ridiculous strength of yours to good work and hold him down! Because yes, his grandfather is trying to get out of the bed. His parents burst in and as a group effort the entire five person family is able to get him to calm down, as Shu agrees to go back to school and perform.
Once he leaves the hospital room, he sags against the hall, laughing a little to himself— he was a fool to have worried. That old man is going to live to see 300, that is for certain.
Memory 3/12
Memory Summary: It's snowing, and the ground is already laden with snow. That loud obnoxious new avante has Shu on his back, and another guy with gray hair is keeping pace with them, scolding them while they bicker. In short, there's a performance happening, and Shu wassss going to freeze to death outside because he hates cellphones and got lost, so they came to find him. Looks like... he might be sort of friends with the new noisy guy on avante?
Memory 4/12
Memory Script: Shu and a friend with extremely bad fashion are out in the shopping district in the dead of winter with snow on the ground: Shu scolding his friend, until they get distracted arguing about love before a third person calls out to them. AlcheME!'s N is on the ground near a vending machine, next to a bunch of fish tanks. Shu offers to call an ambulance, N says he is fine and both his friends agree that Shu is kind while Shu refutes that he is any such thing. Apparently N needs a drink but spent all his money at the fish store, which is why he's carrying all these tanks. Shu tells him to think about consequences before he does things but Wataru agrees that he should just act on impulse. Shu argues with them more before changing the topic— at any rate, they should get N a drink.
Wataru buys him mineral water and N asks for him to splash it on him. Shu points out that it is literally freezing outside, just drink it like a normal person.
Memory 5/12
Memory Summary: It's an actual idol performance. Shu, Kagehira, and a blond that looks like a former member of TRR, Ken are performing on an extremely elaborate stage to Holy Boy's Game. There are film crews recording the three of them, as they perform. They are very, very good. But, if you are very observant you'll notice they are lip-syncing, though to a recording of their own voices. Shu's voice and (if you've met him) Ken's voices are distinctly their own. The audience that watches is completely silent, enraptured, and the arena is a sea of Valkyrie red penlights.
Memory 6/12
Memory Summary: Shu is in a sewing room, dressed in his school uniform, and leaning out the window listening to— a string cup. Behind him, Kagehira is sewing something, the both of them quiet when Ken comes in. Mika is happy to see him, though he's late— and Mika has to deal with the brunt of Shu's bad moods when that happens. Anyway, he's making a costume as a belated birthday present, and it's not as good as anything their mentor makes, but, well... Ken is overjoyed though, and tries three times to make words come out but instead just stammers, unable.
Shu interrupts them and tells them to be quiet, he's on the phone. The string phone, because Rei doesn't know how to use a smartphone. Anyway, back to his conversation with Rei.
The memory, viewed from the outside, only one-sidedly reveals what Shu said, but it sounds like Shu tells Rei not to cross him. Rei probably(?) corrects him, and it sounds like Shu is being warned against Tenshouin. Shu expresses that Tenshouin has only money, not talent, and surely even the vulgar people of the audience will be able to see Valkyrie is of much greater quality than anything that rich boy could put together. That said, he would never be so foolish as to ignore the words of a friend— he thanks Rei for the warning.
Memory 7/12
Memory Summary: It's Shu taking out Ken to a parfait parlor after a long day of shooting a performance! Shu is extremely obnoxiously complimentary, and when Ken is embarrassed that they're attracting attention, Shu yells at the passerby to feel blessed to get to see his cute Nito. Which Ken hits him for, not that it deters Shu in the least.
He also tries to get Ken to not talk nearly so extremely masculinely, but no dice. Ah well, it is better that Nito speak masculinely than not at all! Even if what he has to say isn't what Shu wants to hear, he'll be happy to hear it from him!
He also wigs out because dragonfruit are ugly, Nito don't put something so grotesque in your mouth!!! Which Ken ignores, and then feeds Shu a dragonfruit while he despairs of the world.
What an obnoxious couple(?).
Memory 8/12
Memory summary: In the handicrafts clubroom, Shu and Kagehira are working on their respective sewing projects. Shu notices Kagehira is depressed while Kagehira doesn't respond, annoying Shu. Shu tries to figure out if it's because Kagehira hasn't accepted that he's going abroad, out of the boundaries from where Tenshouin can reach him— he is done being tied down by his past and nightmares. He thanks Kagehira for staying by his side and getting him back on his feet, and gives him permission to live his own life now.
Kagehira insists he's Shu's doll. He gets angrier as he speaks, full of vitriol for humanity, "In fiction, humans’re usually the most amazin’, the most precious things.
So it feels weird t’see humans die as the worthless trash they are, like in a horror movie, right?
But that’s how it is in reality. I don’t think of humans as some magnificent thing I should be aimin’ t’become.
There're parents out there who beat their children an' throw 'em away, an' on the contrary, children who kill their parents for trivial reasons. Stuff like that's all we do; there ain't a single completely pure human out there. "
But dolls are always good. He accuses Shu of wanting him to be a human tantamount to throwing him away. Shu rebukes this, saying he's been taking advantage of Kagehira, but now he wants him to be happy even if he's off-base right now. He wants to understand Kagehira.
Kagehira leaves in response.
Memory 9/12
Memory Summmary: Shu is in his summer uniform, in the handicrafts clubroom which looks wrecked. He's been throwing things, breathing hard from the exertion and the heat. A boy a little younger than him comes in, while Shu doesn't notice, still wrecking his club room, shouting about how his hands have become rusty.
Natsume tells him off, and Shu startles, telling him to knock— which he did, Shu just didn't hear. Natsume tells him being so high strung will shorten his lifespan, which Shu says is fine. He then talks about his ideal suicide, and gets told off again before finally calming down and asking what Natsume is here for, which turns out he needs Shu's help getting some costumes made.
A phone call interrupts their conversation— a young lady called and hung up immediately afterwards, but Kagehira's been kidnapped, bye.
Memory 10/12
Memory Summary: Mika gives Mademoiselle a hair ornament. She loves it, while Shu disapproves— though he relents and agrees to make an outfit to match, at the end.
Memory 11/12
Memory Summary: Shu is completely unresponsive on a park bench at night, holding Mademoiselle in one arm and failing to respond as Kagehira tries to get him to come home, get him to eat, get him to say something.
Eventually, Mademoiselle responds and tells Mika to go home without them. Mika refuses and starts chatting pleasantly with Mademoiselle, until she stops responding and Shu with a jolt stands up and shouts, "Nito!" Kagehira invites him over, and Shu tells Kagehira to remain silent.
For his part, Nito does not seem friendly. He addresses Shu like a stranger, and tells him he's withdrawn from valkyrie— which Shu hasn't approved of, but circumstances being what they are, the student council is allowing it. Nito is going to join another unit he's been acting with.
Kagehira protests and asks if that's really true-- they always got along so well! Shu will get better, they can make a comeback!
Nito bluntly says Valkyrie is finished, and tries to get Mika to be a real boy, rather than a puppet. He'll help him out, since he thinks of him as a little brother— but Shu is useless now.
Kagehira insists Shu is still the strongest even if he needs to rest for now, so they have to support him. Nito is silent, and Kagehira gets angrier. Oh, so Nazuna-nii can talk now, just to be spiteful and then clam up! You traitor!
Shu finally steps into the conversation, telling Kagehira again to be quiet. He then turns to Nito, and tells him to return to his side. He's misunderstood, and begun to think of himself as a person, but he'll only break. If he wishes to return before that happens, Shu will splendidly remake him.
Nito refuses, and tells them their live today was terrible.
Shu tells him he should leave, and never show his face to them again. It's a shame, when Nito was his masterpiece.
Nito agrees, and says he was too well-made— he ended up having a human heart. Farewell, Mika-chin, Mentor.
Memory 12/12
Memory Summary: Shu explains his brilliant nefarious plot to trick a first year into thinking it's the wrong day of week so he can steal a croissant. Mika is incredulous that Shu is this invested in something this dumb, but agrees to help.